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2017 Zeiss PhotograPhy award

1&2. Photographs by Kevin Faingnaert

(Belgium), winner of the 2017 Zeiss

Photography Award. Copyright 2017.

3. Photo by Christopher Roche (UK).
   Commended in the 2017 Zeiss Photography
   Award. Copyright 2017. 4. Photo by Nicky
   Newman (South Africa). Commended
   in the 2017 Zeiss Photography Award.
   Copyright 2017. 5. Photo by Frederik Buyckx
   (Belgium). Commended in the 2017 Zeiss
   Photography Award. Copyright 2017. 6&7.
   Photographs by Fabian Muir (Australia).
   Commended in the 2017 Zeiss Photography
   Award. Copyright 2017. 8. Photo by Sonja
   Hamad (Germany). Commended in the
   2017 Zeiss Photography Award. Copyright


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   9. Photo by Ben Bond Obiri Asamoah
      (Ghana). Commended in the 2017 Zeiss
      Photography Award. Copyright 2017. 10.
      Nicholas White (UK). Commended in the
      2017 Zeiss Photography Award. Copyright
   
   
   
   


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   11. Photo by Anna Filipova (Bulgaria/
       UK). Commended in the 2017 Zeiss
       Photography Award. Copyright 2017.
   
   
   
   

The World PhoTograPhy Organisation

and Zeiss have announced the winners of the

2017 Zeiss Photography Award. The grand prize

was won by Belgian photographer Kevin Faingn-

aert for Føroyar, a series about life on remote and

sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands.

Now in its second year, the theme of the

2017 Zeiss Photography Award was ‘Meaningful

Places’ which challenged professional photogra-

phers to look past the ordinary and every day

with images which captured extraordinary aspects

of the world.

The winning portfolio was selected from more

than 31,000 images submitted by 4677 photogra-

phers from 132 countries.

Kevin Faingnaert’s prize comprises 12,000 Eu-

ros worth of Zeiss lenses and 3000 Euros in travel

expenses to complete a photography project.

The judges also recognised the work of nine other

photographers, including Australia Fabian Muir.

Kevin Faingnaert is a social documentary pho-

tographer who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

“In February 2016 I immersed myself within

the Faroese community, I couch-surfed and hitch-

hiked my way across the islands, finding doors

opening to me everywhere I went. There, across

swathes of snow-veiled landscapes and bordered

by dramatic coastline, villages are slowly dropping

into decline as more and more of their inhabit-

ants are emigrating from the islands in pursuit of

greater opportunities. In these clear and pristine

landscapes, where villages with populations as

low as ten huddle together on the edge of cliffs,

I tried to reveal a community hanging on firmly to

their roots and traditions, while underlining that

one day these villages must inevitably disappear.”

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